Shrugging off the mayhem on the first day of the week following widening trade-deficit, drop in inflation propelled market sentiment on hopes that Reserve Bank will cut rates in forthcoming policy meeting next month, sending both indices to multi-months highs.

Many Farmers in Coimbatore region on Friday threatened that they would resort to mass suicide if government goes ahead with its plan to increase power tariff. Representatives of various farmers’ associations told a public hearing on tariff revision here that the agriculture sector in Tamil Nadu is already in doldrums due to failure of monsoon and resultant drought.

Two security personnel on Friday sustained injuries in a Naxal attack at Maoist-hit Sukma district of Chhattisgarh.

A mob attacked the police and forest workers on an operation to bust illicit quarrying and injured two, including a policeman and set ablaze a jeep of the force in Bihar's Rohtas district on Thursday.

The United Kingdom has introduced super-priority visa for Indians. The applicants are required to pay an additional fee of Rs 50,000 to get the visa within a day. This visa facility launched by the UK government is the first of its kind for the citizens of any country.

Rajasthan unit of BJP has called for a state-level bandh on May 18 to protest the CBI chargesheet against Leader of Opposition Gulab Chand Kataria in Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case.

The Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday raised questions on the ‘haste’ in which Law Ministry within a day of Kapil Sibal taking charge gave its go-ahead for a conciliatory out-of-court settlement of over Rs 11,000 crore tax dispute with Vodafone that marked a change in stance.

Gunmen opened fire on NATO supply trucks passing through northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border, killing two drivers, local officials said.

As a diplomatic impasse over the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange continues, a computer hacking group has attacked government websites in protest against Britain's handling of the issue.

A gang of cyber-criminals operating in 26 countries stole USD 45 million by hacking their way into a database of prepaid debit cards, federal prosecutors in New York said on Thursday.